Mallard has a standing arrangement with Fox. If he can't pull a cite out of his feathery cloaca, he just footnotes it to Fox, notifies them a day in advance, and they'll start ginning up some outrage. If they have two days, they can have it featured in at least three shows.

Has anyone heard a thing about the case the Duck is referring to? I mean, is it possible it's a matter of someone who wasn't hired and who's right-wing but also old, or disabled, for example?

I'm just thinking of an occasion some 10 or 12 years ago where one of the LA Times columnists decided to have a go at the political correctness piñata and claimed Arizona State U. had fired someone "for teaching Shakespeare". Of course, when I e-mailed him asking how such a thing was possible, he replied by making a snarky comment about ASU from a Pac-10 standpoint. Not a thing to back up the initial claim.

So I'm wondering what it is here: A claim twisted from a quarter-truth, or an outright fabrication?

Through Google, I found information about it in a NYTimes article, which likely was more informative than Fox (and more likely more original).Someone was mad because she didn't make the final selection for a law school faculty position, so sued, of course. There are any number of other reasons why the selected candidate could have been better, but she thought she was not liked because of being a Republican.

Ooh, that's good, Mallard. Now tell us the one about the George Mason University instructor who was fired and blacklisted after having the temerity to simply mention Intelligent Design in her class.* I think it's every bit as credible and deserving of outrage as the case you mention here.

You can find the appellate decision at http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/11/12/102588P.pdf .If Tinshley weren't so stupid, he could have provided the casename (Wagner v. Jones) so people can look it up for themselves and make their own decision. But of course making your own decision is not what being conservative is about.

@rewinn, when you're so lazy that "research" is cribbing from Fox News details like the actual case number can't be expected. This kind of ignorance is actually applauded on the right. Anyone pointing it out is an elitist snob.

Quick skim of the case (thanks for knowing how citations work, Rewinn) the key crux is that Wagner is assuming that she was not hired due to her political views. There's evidence of nepotism towards previous students, but hardly anything that proves Wagner's claim.

Of course, one cherry picked example proves that there's a wide-spread, systematic hatred of conservatives in the education system! Especially in the hot-bed of liberalism: IOWA!

Also, only stupid liberals comment on cases before knowing all the facts.

Here's where we see WHY Batshit has an addiction to word salad. It's the only way he can twist and spin reality (and its damn liberal bias) to suit his dogma.

And then, of course, in the next panel he pulls his beloved Liberal Hypocrisy meme back out of his ass.

However, timing again betrays its liberal bias against Batshit: Daily Caller wrongwingers are reportedly howling in "excited" triumph that Scumbag Dick Cheney is "ten times" more popular than Scumbag John Edwards.